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Carbon has four bonding sites, so four hydrogen atoms will bond with a single carbon atom to create CH4--which is methane. Six will bond with a pair of carbon atoms to make ethane, eight will bond with three to make propane...and that keeps on going until the carbon chain is long enough to loop around upon itself. If it does that, each carbon atom will have two open bonds so in ring-form hydrocarbons you have twice as many hydrogens as you do carbons. One exotic hydrocarbon is heptane, which is used as a solvent for rubber cement among other things...it has seven carbons, but it's a straight-line molecule (meaning there is a bonding site at each end of the chain in addition to the two on each carbon atom) so the formula is C7H16.

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Four hydrogen atoms can make a bond with one carbon atom so that it is stable i.e, it attains a noble gas configuration.As in methane CH4.

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Why does hydrogen is attached to carbon molecul with single bond and not with double bond?

Hydrogen is attached to carbon molecule with single bond and not double bond because the hydrogen atom joins to one of the carbon atoms originally in the double bond.


What is adjacent atom and bond?

The adjacent carbon atom means the carbon atom next to, or beside, the atom of interest. For example, in an aldehyde, the carbon that has the double bond to oxygen is called the carbonyl carbon. The adjacent carbon is called the alpha (α) carbon.


What are examples of covalent bonds besides water?

Single, double, and triple carbon-carbon bonds; carbon-hydrogen bonds; carbon-halogen bonds; hydrogen-hydrogen bonds; nitrogen-nitrogen bonds; single and double carbon-oxygen bonds; silicon-oxygen bonds in silicone polymers.


Why can't tertiary alcohols be oxidized?

Simple answer ... you need at least one hydrogen attached to carbinol carbon. in other words, you have a hydrogen on the oxygen to give you the hydroxyl group that is attached to the carbinol carbon, but you also need a hydrogen coming off that carbon. The reason - your reagent, such as chromic acid, joins with the alcohol at the position of the hydroxyl group, which leads to an H2O molecule being shot off. The chromic acid provides the -OH of that water, but takes the H off the hydroxyl group to get the 2nd hydrogen atom. You would now have a chromate ester + water. The water then takes off a hydrogen atom attached to the carbinol carbon, which leaves the electrons to form a double bond with the Oxygen atom. Without the hydrogen attached to the carbinol carbon ... like in a tertiary alcohol ... oxidation could only take place by breaking carbon-carbon bonds, which requires severe conditions. Even if this did happen, you would get a mixture of products.


During glycolysis why is glucose phosphorylated on carbon 6?

Glucose is called a 6 carbon sugar because there are six carbon atoms along its back bone, which are either attached to a hydrogen in one side and a hydroxyl group (OH) to the other side. the very fist carbon i attached to a hydrogen by a single bond, and to an oxygen by a double bond, while your last carbon besides being attached to the hydrogen and hydroxyl group it also has another hydrogen attached to it. All are attached by single bond with the exception of that one oxygen.

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Why does hydrogen is attached to carbon molecul with single bond and not with double bond?

Hydrogen is attached to carbon molecule with single bond and not double bond because the hydrogen atom joins to one of the carbon atoms originally in the double bond.


What is adjacent atom and bond?

The adjacent carbon atom means the carbon atom next to, or beside, the atom of interest. For example, in an aldehyde, the carbon that has the double bond to oxygen is called the carbonyl carbon. The adjacent carbon is called the alpha (α) carbon.


What are amino acids made out of?

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sometimes sulfur. The defining structure is a nitrogen attached to a carbon that is attached to another carbon that is double bound to an oxygen. The nitrogen side is called the Amino terminal, and the other side is called the carboxy terminal. What makes amino acids different is the R group that is attached to the first carbon I mentioned with the simplest being a hydrogen. N | C-R | C=0 | O Hydrogen not shown to simplify.


What structural features are in imines?

Imines are those compounds in which nitrogen is attached to a carbon through double bond and to hydrogen through single bond, R-CH=N-H, carbon and nitrogen both are sp2 hybridized, they behave just like unsaturated hydrocarbons


What is lowest in unsaturated fat?

The number of hydrogen atoms attached to the carbon backbone is the lowest in unsaturated fats (in contrast to saturated fats). This is due to double-bonding.


What do formamide and acetamide have in common?

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What is having no carbon-carbon double bonds?

In fatty acids, having no carbon-carbon double bond makes the molecule saturated with hydrogen atoms.


What are examples of covalent bonds besides water?

Single, double, and triple carbon-carbon bonds; carbon-hydrogen bonds; carbon-halogen bonds; hydrogen-hydrogen bonds; nitrogen-nitrogen bonds; single and double carbon-oxygen bonds; silicon-oxygen bonds in silicone polymers.


Does ethylene have a single bond and double bond?

Ethylene has 4 single bonds (carbon to hydrogen) and 1 double bond (carbon to carbon).


What elements are found in benzene?

Carbon and hydrogen. Benzene is a hexagonal ring formed of carbon-carbon bonds, alternatively double and single. http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb157/hortaux/benzene.jpg


Why can't tertiary alcohols be oxidized?

Simple answer ... you need at least one hydrogen attached to carbinol carbon. in other words, you have a hydrogen on the oxygen to give you the hydroxyl group that is attached to the carbinol carbon, but you also need a hydrogen coming off that carbon. The reason - your reagent, such as chromic acid, joins with the alcohol at the position of the hydroxyl group, which leads to an H2O molecule being shot off. The chromic acid provides the -OH of that water, but takes the H off the hydroxyl group to get the 2nd hydrogen atom. You would now have a chromate ester + water. The water then takes off a hydrogen atom attached to the carbinol carbon, which leaves the electrons to form a double bond with the Oxygen atom. Without the hydrogen attached to the carbinol carbon ... like in a tertiary alcohol ... oxidation could only take place by breaking carbon-carbon bonds, which requires severe conditions. Even if this did happen, you would get a mixture of products.


During glycolysis why is glucose phosphorylated on carbon 6?

Glucose is called a 6 carbon sugar because there are six carbon atoms along its back bone, which are either attached to a hydrogen in one side and a hydroxyl group (OH) to the other side. the very fist carbon i attached to a hydrogen by a single bond, and to an oxygen by a double bond, while your last carbon besides being attached to the hydrogen and hydroxyl group it also has another hydrogen attached to it. All are attached by single bond with the exception of that one oxygen.